LETTER: Equality, period

Tuesday

Aug 13, 2013 at 6:06 PMAug 13, 2013 at 6:07 PM

Dear Donna (Brazile, writer of the July 31 op-ed):

Dear Donna (Brazile, writer of the July 31 op-ed):I need your contribution to equality. This is your president speaking, and you reported my remarks from the Knox College address including, “This growing inequality isn’t just morally wrong; it’s bad economics.” I think you can keep — oh, let’s say $40,000, because you went to college and were hired for your good education, etc. But the rest, you need to pass along to some of the country’s less fortunate who didn’t go to college or learn a trade and now make minimum wage or cannot work for some other reason.It does not matter what that reason may be, inequality is just morally wrong, period. We all need to be equal.I know you and other professionals may have spent a decade in schooling, working night jobs, avoiding gambling, drug debts and other fun stuff, but that does not really matter when you look around and see all the people who do not have exactly what you do. You donate to the United Way already? Other charities? Cool! Well, whatever, it’s still not “fair” that you make so much more than most other Americans.What I need you to do is keep getting the word out that if you are working really long, hard hours that may take you to the pinnacle of American achievements, where “wealth concentrates at the very top,” you’ll realize you are threatening the economy. So it’s important for you, Donna, to get off your above-poverty salary, give it to those with less, but make absolutely sure they don’t threaten the economy with too much success, OK? Just enough success to be equal. Thanks.Mona MaddoxSteele

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